Guangdong Light Industry Vocational and Technical College

Founded in 1933, Guangdong Light Industry Vocational and Technical College is the only national model higher vocational college in the province, a construction unit of high-level vocational schools and high-level professional groups with Chinese characteristics ("double high plan"), and currently has more than 20,000 full-time students. The school was formerly the "Guangdong Provincial No. 1 Vocational School" and has a 88-year history of vocational education. It has offered undergraduate vocational education in the two periods of 1959-1963 and 1978-1983.

The school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implements the Party's education policy, is based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, faces the whole country, serves the transformation and upgrading of light industry, adheres to the school motto of "being both moral and capable, and learning to achieve success" and the spirit of "self-reliance, dedication, truth-seeking, and innovation", implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, educates people for the Party, and cultivates talents for the country, and has cultivated more than 200,000 high-quality and highly skilled application-oriented talents for the society, and graduates are spread across more than 30 countries in five continents.

• Excellent school conditions

The school currently has five campuses: Guangzhou Xingang Campus, Guangzhou Pazhou Campus, Nanhai Campus North District, Nanhai Campus South District and Qingyuan Campus (under construction), with a total campus area of ​​2,522 acres and a school building area of ​​693,700 square meters, including 469,700 square meters of teaching, scientific research and administrative buildings. The school library has a collection of 1.8144 million books, 1.795 million electronic books, and a total value of 298 million yuan in teaching equipment. The teaching area, office area and student dormitory areas have achieved full coverage of campus wired and wireless networks.

－－Strong faculty

The school currently has more than 1,600 faculty and staff, including more than 400 teachers with senior professional titles and more than 1,000 "double-qualified" teachers; 8 Pearl River Scholars, 2 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 2 national model teachers, 2 national teaching masters, 3 national teaching teams, 1 national "Ten Thousand People Plan" teaching master, 2 national technical experts, 1 national young job expert, 2 influential figures in the ideological and political theory courses of national colleges and universities, 1 national advanced worker in the light industry, 2 Chinese light industry vocational education teaching masters, 1 national counselor of the year, 2 national training targets of the "Thousand Hundred Ten Project" of Guangdong Province's colleges and universities, 20 outstanding teachers in South Guangdong, 6 outstanding educators in South Guangdong, more than 100 famous teachers and experts such as Guangdong Province's "Special Support Plan" teaching masters, Guangdong Province teaching masters, and professional leaders. A high-quality part-time teacher resource library composed of front-line technical personnel, skilled craftsmen, senior managers, etc. has been established, and the ratio of part-time teachers to professional full-time teachers has reached 1:1. The school has ranked first in the assessment of the construction of the teaching team of higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province for three consecutive years.

--Fruitful teaching results

The school has 13 secondary colleges including the School of Mechanical and Electrical Technology, the School of Food and Biotechnology, the School of Light Chemical Technology, the School of Information Technology, the School of Automotive Technology, the School of Ecological Environment Technology, the School of Art and Design, the School of Finance and Trade, the School of Management, the School of Applied Foreign Languages, the School of Entrepreneurship, the School of Marxism and the School of Continuing Education. It has built 4 collaborative teaching centers including the Industrial Robot Collaborative Teaching Center, the Modern Information Technology and New Engineering Collaborative Teaching Center, the Applied Foreign Languages ​​Collaborative Teaching Center, and the Course Ideological and Political Teaching Research Center. There are currently 13 professional groups and 69 enrollment majors.

The school has 2 high-level professional groups with Chinese characteristics, 4 national demonstration majors, 1 national vocational school tourism demonstration major, 2 majors supported by the central government for the development of professional service industry, 11 national backbone majors, and 1 IEET certified major; 7 provincial demonstration majors, 13 provincial key majors, 18 provincial brand majors, 9 provincial first-class vocational colleges with high-level construction majors, and 6 provincial high-level professional groups. There are 2 national teaching resource libraries, 10 national quality courses, 9 national quality resource sharing courses, and 1 national college career development and employment guidance demonstration course; 2 provincial professional teaching resource libraries, 88 provincial open courses, including 21 provincial quality courses, 22 national teaching committee quality courses, 32 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 1 provincial quality video open course, and 12 provincial quality online open courses.

The school has won 10 second prizes for national excellent teaching achievements, 1 special prize for provincial excellent teaching achievements, 3 special prizes from the industry teaching committee, 15 first prizes for provincial excellent teaching achievements, and 10 second prizes for provincial excellent teaching achievements.

－－High quality of talent training

The school has fully implemented the "vertical extension, horizontal expansion" collaborative education model, and carried out various forms of collaborative training such as "3+2" middle-high school connection, "2+2" and "4+0" high-school joint training, "3+2" high-school connection, undergraduate transfer students (two-year system), and engineering master training, building a "middle-high-school-undergraduate-master" modern vocational education system framework, and currently has 13 joint training undergraduate majors. The school is a pilot unit for the modern apprenticeship system of the Ministry of Education, and has established 3 national modern apprenticeship system pilot projects and 14 provincial modern apprenticeship system pilot projects.

The number of admissions and admission scores of the school have been among the best in similar colleges in the province for many years, and the admission scores of liberal arts, science, and art majors are higher than the provincial control line for undergraduates. Graduates are welcomed by employers, and their satisfaction with their alma mater and salary level are higher than the national average of demonstration higher vocational colleges. The initial employment rate is higher than 98%, and the employer satisfaction is more than 99%.

In the past three years, students of the school have won more than 500 national awards and more than 1,000 provincial and ministerial awards in various skill competitions, and the number and quality of awards have been rising steadily.

• Strong social service capabilities

The school continues to improve the long-term mechanism for promoting the integration of industry, education and science through the collaboration of government, schools, enterprises and enterprises, and has built 4 joint centers for industry, education and science, and has built the Guangdong Industry-Education Integration Promotion Association, Guangdong Light Industry Vocational Education Group, Light Industry Application Technology Collaborative Innovation Development Center, Nanhai Vocational Education Government-School-Enterprise Collaborative Innovation Alliance, Guangdong Industrial Internet Industry-Education Alliance, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Digital Creative Industry-Education Alliance, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Cross-border E-commerce Industry-Education Alliance, Guangdong Hotel Vocational Education Alliance, National Precision Nutrition Food and Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry-Education Alliance, National Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Intellectual Property Training Base and other industry-university-research innovation, scientific and technological research and development and transformation platforms. Focusing on the construction of high-level professional groups, we have created "one group, one college, and one alliance". We have cooperated with Huawei and other world's top 500 companies to establish 12 industrial colleges, including Huawei ICT College, Tianyi Digital Industry College, Hanlan Environmental College, Renault Watch College, and Guangqing-Shunde Jewelry Industry College, to achieve precise docking between schools and enterprises, deep integration of production and education, and precise education.

In the past five years, the school has won 4 national and 80 provincial science and technology projects; 15 national and provincial science and technology awards; and carried out more than 300 scientific and technological research projects for enterprises. Nearly 776 patents have been applied for and nearly 497 have been authorized.

The school implements the "High-level Social Training Service Capacity Building Plan" and the "Smart Lifelong Education Service System Construction Plan" to create a high-quality and efficient social service brand, and continue to empower regional economic and social development. Relying on the "Quality Provincial Base for Vocational Teachers" of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, the "Dual-qualified" Teacher Training Base for Intelligent Manufacturing Majors (Groups) of the Ministry of Education, the Guangdong Vocational College Dual-qualified Teacher Training Base, Guangdong Light Industry Training Center, Guangdong Professional and Technical Personnel Continuing Education Base, China Furniture Industry Vocational Skills Training Base, China Nutrition and Health Food Association Vocational Skills Training Base and other national and provincial vocational training platforms, we have established more than 30 professional and specialized vocational training institutions, community and rural revitalization education bases, etc., facing the society, community and industry, enterprises and social needs, industry frontiers, and special groups, actively and extensively carry out various types of training services at all levels, with an annual training volume of more than 150,000 people-days; cooperate with undergraduate colleges to carry out online distance education and self-study examination undergraduate education, set up 18 off-campus teaching points in Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Maoming and other places, and the number of students in various types of academic continuing education exceeds 3,000.

• High level of internationalization

The school adheres to the international cooperative education strategy of "bringing in" and "going out", and has established cooperative relations with more than 20 foreign colleges and enterprises, including North Sydney College in Australia, Northern Polytechnic in New Zealand, Wright University in the UK, Paris College in France, Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, and DRB-HICOM Automotive University in Malaysia. It has established Sino-foreign cooperative education majors in international business financial management and food nutrition and testing; and opened three-year academic education for international students in four majors: international economics and trade, hotel management, product art design, and advertising design and production. It has established student overseas internship bases, student overseas vocational skills training centers, and overseas cultural exchange centers in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, and has built a new platform and new pattern for international exchange and cooperation in light industry vocational education, and is committed to creating a model of international two-way exchange in vocational education.

Since 2016, the school has enrolled 641 short-term language students from more than 40 countries on four continents for non-academic education.

In 2017, the school took the lead in establishing the Guangdong "Belt and Road" Vocational Education Alliance, exporting the Guangdong-Qingdao vocational education model, serving the countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", and presenting a new look for internationalized education. The school was rated as one of the "Top 50 Influential Vocational Colleges in Asia-Pacific" for three consecutive years in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

--School-running results are obvious

In 2006, the school passed the Ministry of Education's talent training level assessment of higher vocational colleges with an excellent grade; in 2007, it was listed as a Guangdong Provincial Demonstration Higher Vocational College Construction Unit; in 2008, it was listed as a national demonstration higher vocational college construction unit; in 2011, it passed the national demonstration higher vocational college acceptance organized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance with an excellent grade; in 2016, the school was listed as a first-class higher vocational college construction unit in Guangdong Province; in 2019, the school was listed as a Guangdong Provincial High-quality Junior College Higher Vocational College, a National High-quality Higher Vocational College, and a "Double High Plan" construction unit (Top 30 in the country).

The school has been awarded one "National Model Department for Party Building Work" and two "National Model Branches for Party Building Work". It has successively won the top 50 national service contributions of higher vocational colleges in the country (for two consecutive years), the top 50 internship management of higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 teaching resources of higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 student management of higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 teaching management of higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 educational effectiveness of higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 influential vocational colleges in the Asia-Pacific region, the top 30 influential rankings of national demonstrative higher vocational colleges, the top 20 national general colleges and universities competition evaluation (higher vocational colleges), the top 50 excellent demonstration cases of ideological and political work innovation in higher vocational colleges in the country, the top 50 demonstration schools of innovation and entrepreneurship in higher vocational colleges in the country, and the 9th place in the comprehensive competitiveness ranking of higher vocational colleges in China in 2019.

The school leads the country in the supply-side structural reform of education with "new engineering", "new liberal arts" and "new business" as the starting point; it leads the country in innovative logistics reforms such as multi-functional cultural canteens and intelligent garbage sorting systems; the school's personnel system reform and performance-based salary reform have become a benchmark for the province. The school is one of the first batch of national educational informatization pilot units, the digital campus experimental school unit of vocational colleges of the Central Audio-visual Education Museum, the pilot unit of the Ministry of Education's modern apprenticeship system, the pilot unit of the Ministry of Education's "1+X" certificate, the pilot unit of the Ministry of Education's modern apprenticeship system, and the pilot unit of undergraduate talent training in vocational colleges. Vice Chairman Unit of the Professional Committee of Higher Vocational Colleges of the National Association of Ideological and Political Studies in Colleges and Universities (Chairman Unit of Guangdong Province), Chairman Unit of the National Alliance of Ideological and Political Courses Construction in Higher Vocational Colleges, Leading Unit and Secretariat Unit of my country's "Joint Action for the Implementation of the Fundamental Task of Moral Education in Higher Vocational Colleges", National Demonstration Vocational Education Group, National Demonstration School for Professional Talent Training of Cross-border E-commerce, National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports, National Higher Vocational "One School, One Product" Demonstration Unit, National Excellent Unit for Social Practice Work, Unit where the Industrial Internet Technology Application Research Institute of the China Vocational Education Society and the China Vocational and Technical Education Society are located, Chairman Unit of the Guangdong Vocational and Technical Education Society, Executive Chairman Unit of the Guangdong Industry-Education Integration Promotion Association, Guangdong Demonstration School Unit for Rule of Law in Schools, Guangdong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration School Unit, Guangdong Safety and Civilized Campus Demonstration School Unit, Guangdong Civilized Campus Creation Advanced Unit, Guangdong Group School Unit, National Defense Education Characteristic School.

November 2021